Heartland

markfiend wrote:The rest (about having a free hit on the ball after a no-ball ) is to do with one dayers though.

yeah that's what i meant seeing as that seemed to be the main thrust of the article. oh, and for what it's worth, i think it's a bloody ridiculous idea too!

RicheyJames wrote:

markfiend wrote:The rest (about having a free hit on the ball after a no-ball ) is to do with one dayers though.

yeah that's what i meant seeing as that seemed to be the main thrust of the article. oh, and for what it's worth, i think it's a bloody ridiculous idea too!

...As is the short match slogathon. Which is where we came in.

...except i maintian that the slogfest does have some merits. it's a bloody good laugh but it's not cricket.

Limited overs cricket is nigh-on essential for people with jobs who want to watch a cricket match.

I can't take 4/5 days off to laze around in the sun and drink moderate quantities of booze - certainly not more than once a summer.

But I can spend a Sunday afternoon doing precisely that. Thus limited overs cricket works.

Still, I'd watch most forms of the game when possible. And most forms of most other games too. Except horsey things.

andymackem wrote:Limited overs cricket is nigh-on essential for people with jobs who want to watch a cricket match.

I can't take 4/5 days off to laze around in the sun and drink moderate quantities of booze - certainly not more than once a summer.

But I can spend a Sunday afternoon doing precisely that. Thus limited overs cricket works.

Still, I'd watch most forms of the game when possible. And most forms of most other games too. Except horsey things.

tosh and piffle sir! few,if any, of us can afford the time to watch every ball of a test but any true student of the game can appreciate both a sublime individual performance in the context of a match and the fact that all fifteen sessions of a truly great test (and i'm including that which has just graced lords) can be enjoyed in and of themselves.

although i still maintain that the fifty, forty and even twenty over forms of the game have their place. but that place is somewhere below the true splendour of the full test.

Why do I think Empire Down is fitting at this moment?

RicheyJames wrote:

andymackem wrote:Limited overs cricket is nigh-on essential for people with jobs who want to watch a cricket match.

I can't take 4/5 days off to laze around in the sun and drink moderate quantities of booze - certainly not more than once a summer.

But I can spend a Sunday afternoon doing precisely that. Thus limited overs cricket works.

Still, I'd watch most forms of the game when possible. And most forms of most other games too. Except horsey things.

tosh and piffle sir! few,if any, of us can afford the time to watch every ball of a test but any true student of the game can appreciate both a sublime individual performance in the context of a match and the fact that all fifteen sessions of a truly great test (and i'm including that which has just graced lords) can be enjoyed in and of themselves.

although i still maintain that the fifty, forty and even twenty over forms of the game have their place. but that place is somewhere below the true splendour of the full test.

Aren't we basically agreeing with one another, but trying to make it look like an argument?

andymackem wrote:Aren't we basically agreeing with one another, but trying to make it look like an argument?

yes. but it's such fun isn't it?

andymackem wrote: Aren't we basically agreeing with one another, but trying to make it look like an argument?

Do you see what I've got to put up with?

Impossible.........

Sexygoth wrote:

andymackem wrote: Aren't we basically agreeing with one another, but trying to make it look like an argument?

Do you see what I've got to put up with?

Impossible.........

No, I see what you choose to put up with.

Insane ........